Last of New York city

 Bars on the windows of the Federal Reserve Bank, we were supposed to have a tour of the bank but they wouldn't open it to the public because of the things going on in Boston.

 This is the Wall Street bull!

 Show just how narrow the financial district of NYC is.

 In the Financial Museum, they had this sold gold monoply set, it was pretty awesome.

This is the Stock exchange building at the front doors.

9-11

The pictures do not do it justice, but this is the 9-11 memorial.  The tree in the last picture is the only tree that survived the collapse of the towers.  They replanted it on the site of the memorials.  It was very awe inspiring to see the site.  Like I said, the pictures don't do it justice, you have to actually be there to appreciate the memorial.

I loved visiting the city, I would hate to live there but to see some of the sites was a very nice experience for me.  Hope you all are having a good week.

More New York

 You can see another part of New York, which is Brooklyn, behind me and a little of the
Brooklyn Bridge.

 This is the picture of the Brooklyn Bridge.

 Brooklyn, New York, I am on the Manhattan side of the city.

 A ship that was moored at one of the piers, as you can see in the next picture, it was the Peking ship.

Another part of New York is South Street Seaport, which is a historic area in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located where Fulton Street meets the East River, and adjacent to the Financial District.  It features some of the oldest architecture in downtown Manhattan, and includes the largest concentration of restored early 19th-century commercial buildings in the city.  It has a view of the Brooklyn Bridge.  At the entrance to the Seaport is the Titanic Memorial lighthouse(which I didn't get a picture of).

The Seaport's heyday, 1820 to 1860.  by the late-1950's, the old Ward Line docks (Pier 15, 16, and part of 17) were mostly vacant.

South Street Seaport Museum sits in a 12 square-block historic district that is the site of the original port of New York City.

I didn't take pictures of the historic area because of hurricane Sandy, a lot of the shops and buildings were vacant and not open, pretty sad to see all the buildings boarded up!

Trinity Church

Yesterday, I spent the whole day in the financial district of New York city.  I went with the Business students and the Wall Street club.  We left at 6:30 in the morning and got back around 10:30 last night.  It was amazing.  I will have a few days of posts from the city trip.  Here is number one, this is the Trinity Church in Lower Manhatten, it is a historic, active parish church int he Episcopal Diocese of NY.  The parish received its charter from King William 111 on May 6, 1697,  its land grant specified an annual rent of sixty bushels of wheat.  The first Trinity Church was constructed in 1698.  According to historical records, Captain William Kidd lent the runner and tackle from his ship for hoisting the stones.  Following his 1789 inauguration at Federal hall, George Washingtion attended Thanksgiving services.

The third and current Trinity Church was finished in 1846 and at the time of its completion its 281-foot spire and cross was the highest point in NY until being surpassed in 1890 by the  NY World Building.

On July 9, 1976 Queen Elizabeth 11, visited Trinity Church.  Vestrymen presented her with a symbolic "back rent" of 279 peppercorns.  Thereby, in 1697, King William111 gave Trinity Church a charter that called for the parish to pay an annual rent of one peppercorn to the crown.  during the September 11, 2001 attacks, as the 1st tower collapsed, people took refuge from the massive debris cloud in side the Church.  Falling wreckage from the collapsing tower knocked over a giant sycamore tree that had stood for nearly a century in the churchyard of St. Paul's Chapel, which is part of Trinity Church's parish and is located several blocks north of Trinity Church.  Sculptor Steve Tobin used its roots as the base for a bronze sculpture that stands next to the church today.  Trinity Churchyard, at Wall Street and Broadway, in which Alexander Hamilton, William Bradford, Franklin Wharton, Robert Fulton, Captain James Lawrence and Albert Gallatin are buried.

The picture that shows the doors going into the church, has a spot on the ground where it shows that Queen Elizabeth stood.

Wordless Wednesday

New Gadget!

We went to get gas in the hubbies company truck and stopped at a new antique shop in town and look what we bought!  It is an antique Crystal coffee grinder, it was missing a lid (which we supplied) and the bottom glass (trusty canning jar, which we supplied again).    Other than that, it is in great shape.  We just had to go right to the local grocery store and buy whole bean coffee and give it a try.  It worked beautifully and the coffee was amazing.  Hard to believe the difference in taste from ground to whole bean coffee.  I am now hooked on fresh coffee.  We even got a deal on it.  The guy wanted 70 dollars and we got it for 40!  We did buy some other things, like a cast iron dutch oven with lid and no legs(mine all have legs).   Now I have a dutch oven that can be used on my stove and in the oven.

Hope you all are having a great day.

Tractor

This old tractor is our favorite toy..  the other day we were talking about all the old equipment and trucks that need to be taken to the junk yard; and decided that this tractor was going to stay in the family for awhile yet, that we aren't quite ready to get rid of it.

The nephew came by today and brought his fancy sports car and gave me a ride in it.  I told him after he has had it a while longer that I would love to take it for a drive myself!  I have to say though that I am still a truck kind of girl, give me a truck to drive and I will be happy.  I like my car but the day we get to go get a different and newer truck will be my day!

Hope you all are having a good weekend.